The Hudson [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Tom Lewis
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| Autore: |
Lewis Tom <1942->
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| Titolo: |
The Hudson [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Tom Lewis
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 974.7/3 |
| Soggetto topico: | HISTORY / General |
| Soggetto geografico: | Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) History |
| Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) History | |
| Classificazione: | RU 20357 |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The river and the land -- Explorers and traders -- The colonizers arrive -- The valley transformed -- The only passage -- The democratic river -- Definers of the landscape -- River of fortunes -- Twentieth-century waters. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Flowing through a valley of sublime scenery, the Hudson River uniquely connects America's past with its present and future. This book traces the course of the river through four centuries, recounting the stories of explorers and traders, artists and writers, entrepreneurs and industrialists, ecologists and preservationists-those who have been shaped by the river as well as those who have helped shape it. Their compelling narratives attest to the Hudson River's distinctive place in American history and the American imagination.Among those who have figured in the history of the Hudson are Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Astors and the Vanderbilts, and Thomas Cole of the Hudson River school. Their stories appear here, alongside those of such less famous individuals as the surveyor who found the source of the Hudson and the engineer who tried to build a hydroelectric plant at Storm King Mountain. Inviting us to view the river from a wider perspective than ever before, this entertaining and enlightening book is worthy of its grand subject. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Hudson |
| ISBN: | 1-281-72939-6 |
| 9786611729394 | |
| 0-300-12906-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777858203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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